AMH 3558, American Legal History
Course description:
This course considers the
way law in the United States developed from the point of European settlement to
the present. It pays particular attention to the development, and changes, in
common law, and includes examination of the criminal law, property law, and the
law of torts (or personal harms). The course examines the way those areas of
law changed over time, and what social or economic or political shifts
influenced those changes. In addition, the course will consider whether, and
how, changes in the law led to changes in society.